The Communist Party of Canada

mentalfloss

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Conservative MP Bob Saroya took trip to China paid for by Communist Party

A Conservative MP took a free trip to China this spring that was in part funded by the foreign affairs arm of the ruling Chinese Communist Party – a department that is dedicated to wooing support overseas.

Babar (Bob) Saroya’s eight-day trip came amid the Chinese government’s continued efforts to reach out to Canada’s federal Conservative Party, which has publicly opposed signing a free-trade deal with China. The MP represents the Markham-Unionville riding, just north of Toronto.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced last year that the party disagrees with the Trudeau government’s goal of pursuing a trade deal with China, saying that while generations of Chinese immigrants have enriched this country, Canada should nevertheless focus on expanding trade with “like-minded democracies” such as India.

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Hoid

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Why would you not pursue trade with both China and India?
 

White_Unifier

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If we're focusing mainly on trade, then I say trade with both China and India. If we're worried about human rights, then trade with only those parts of China that guarantee respect for the Universal Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

To the best of my knowledge, that leaves only Hong Kong that I know for sure and probably Taiwan too and Macao too. If China wants to expand trade, then it would have the option of expanding its free economic zones like Hong Kong if it wants too.

Alternatively, we trade with the whole of China but exclude any state-owned business.
 

petros

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Why would you not pursue trade with both China and India?

Follow the garlic bulb road.

Prison Labour.

If we're focusing mainly on trade, then I say trade with both China and India. If we're worried about human rights, then trade with only those parts of China that guarantee respect for the Universal Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

To the best of my knowledge, that leaves only Hong Kong that I know for sure and probably Taiwan too and Macao too. If China wants to expand trade, then it would have the option of expanding its free economic zones like Hong Kong if it wants too.

Alternatively, we trade with the whole of China but exclude any state-owned business.

Read: https://gardenculturemagazine.com/against-the-grain/chinas-hold-on-the-garlic-industry/
 

Hoid

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Indian culture is based on the inherent inequality of citizens at birth.

Just as antithetical to our belief system as is communism